Top 70s Movies

256 Titles
Charlotte's Web Poster

Charlotte's Web

Wilbur is a farm pig who's terrified that he'll end up on the dinner table. His friend Charlotte, a charming spider, comes to his rescue. She weaves words into her web, convincing the farmer that Wilbur is too special a pig to kill.

20,748 votes
9. 6 imdb
% 73 metacritic
% 78 tomato meter
Halloween Poster

Halloween

The year is 1963, the night: Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that 15 year old Judith Myers has been stabbed to death, by her 6 year-old brother, Michael. After being institutionalized for 15 years, Myers breaks out on the night before Halloween. No one knows, nor wants to find out, what will happen on October 31st 1978 besides Myers' psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis. He knows Michael is coming back to Haddonfield, but by the time the town realizes it, it'll be too late for many people.

325K votes
7. 7 imdb
% 90 metacritic
% 96 tomato meter
1900 Poster

1900

Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock, Olmo, the other born to a land owner, Alfredo. The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by supporting Communism, and how these events shape the destinies of the two main characters.

28,426 votes
6. 7 imdb
% 70 metacritic
% 57 tomato meter
Frenzy Poster

Frenzy

A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.

52,015 votes
4. 7 imdb
% 92 metacritic
% 90 tomato meter
The Decameron Poster

The Decameron

An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio's "Decameron": **** Segment 1: A young man from Perugia is swindled twice in Naples, but ends up rich; **** Segment 2: A man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; **** Segment 3: A woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; **** Segment 4: A scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; **** Segment 5: Three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; **** Segment 6: A young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; **** Segment 7: A group of painters wait for inspiration; **** Segment 8: A crafty priest attempts to seduce his friend's wife; **** Segment 9: Two friends make a pact to find out what happens after death.

13,185 votes
7 imdb
% metacritic
% 79 tomato meter
Drunken Master Poster

Drunken Master

Wong Fei-Hung is a mischievous yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents his frustrated father has him disciplined by a master of drunken martial arts.

46,325 votes
4. 7 imdb
% 68 metacritic
% 80 tomato meter
The Tenant Poster

The Tenant

A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

49,994 votes
5. 7 imdb
% 71 metacritic
% tomato meter
Superman Poster

Superman

An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.

201K votes
4. 7 imdb
% 82 metacritic
% 94 tomato meter
That Obscure Object of Desire Poster

That Obscure Object of Desire

Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next few hours he explains (and we see in flashback) how he became obsessed by her (so much so that he failed to notice that she was played by two different actresses, representing different sides of her personality), and how she tantalised him, but would never allow him to satisfy his desire for her...

26,362 votes
8. 7 imdb
% 84 metacritic
% 97 tomato meter
The Man Who Would Be King Poster

The Man Who Would Be King

This adaptation of the famous short story by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, two ex-soldiers in India when it was under British rule. They decide that the country is too small for them, so they head off to Kafiristan in order to become Kings in their own right. Kipling is seen as a character that was there at the beginning, and at the end of this glorious tale.

54,166 votes
7. 7 imdb
% 91 metacritic
% 97 tomato meter
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